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January 15th 2014:Tech Donations Transforming NGOs and NPOs Part 2

Today’s buzz: Donations.
Businesses are pressured to do the right thing via donations, especially at year-end. Giving feels good. It could feel even better all year long if your company expands its generosity to support NPOs and NGOs around the world. How?
The experts speak.
Joana Breidenbach, betterplace.org: “The social sector and philanthropy will experience a similar disruption to industries such as news and retail – digital tools challenge existing power relations, practices, and business models. Executed well, they hold the potential for civil society organizations to be much more eff

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Featured Guests

Joana Breidenbach

Joana Breidenbach holds a PhD in cultural anthropology and is the author of numerous publications on the cultural consequences of globalization, including Seeing Culture Everywhere (University of Washington Press, 2009). After a five-month trip around the world with her husband and children, Joana co-founded betterplace.org in 2007. To date, the Berlin-based social business is Germany’s largest donation platform. Joana heads the betterplace lab, a think-and-do tank seeking to improve the social sector through the use of digital technologies.

Alex Lapusan

Alex Lapusan is currently the CEO and Founding Partner of Zitec.com. Zitec is a tech lab, with a team of over 80 online specialists assisting businesses with custom projects and startups to build their disruptive products. Zitec is also actively investing in such companies – two startups in San Francisco, one in New York, and one in Romania. As such, in the past three years Alex has filled in as CIO or CTO for Media Ventures and Zipongo.com. Before co-founding Zitec in 2003, Alex was a software engineer with United Management Technologies, umt.com

Nish Pangali

Nish Pangali leads Technology and Acceleration Programs within SAP’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) organization. Her approach to the company’s mission of ‘helping the world run better’ is to leverage the power of SAP to build capacity of global NGO’s and Social Enterprises, and accelerate their mission and impact. Nish started her career in the non-profit sector, consulting on education reform initiatives. After returning to school to receive her M.B.A, she continued developing her business and leadership skills at several Bay Area companies including SAP, before transitioning to the CSR organization.